I was wondering if it were possible to capture keyboard and mouse inputs? I have no idea what kind of technical hurdles this would entail, but imagined making a minigame using combinators. Perhaps you could set keyboard keys and mouse pointer position / velocity as a signal somehow? Although I have ...

AFAIK biters will only destroy tracks when they are responding to an attack by train and there is no train there when they arrive. Sometimes personal laser defense will hit a worm or spawner as a train goes by and cause this, I'm not sure about artillery trains, but perhaps your artillery stops shou...

I've been working on an interactive explanation of how Factorio generates maps which lets you interactively explore the various options that lets you see how each option really works. It only covers ore, but water and terrain segmentation are similar. http://db48x.net/factorio-terrain/ Let me know ...

Schorty wrote:but the run ends by getting run over by a train

Haha! I love it!

I want to try this.

Huge thanks for copy paste! This looks very cool

For a more compact fluid barrel loop.

Thought about this a lot more and I think it would make the most sense to have a logistics gateway be its own entity. Updating my original post. A gateway would be a new entity for the purpose of creating gateway links to neighboring roboports. The gateway would have a linking radius of the same siz...

In this scenario, the hexagon wouldn't be able to automatically configure itself in the manner you describe. A simple system to remove other link paths between gateways would result in isolated in-range roboports. I think you would have to be able to choose the link type in the GUI. Perhaps via shif...

Thought about this a lot more and I think it would make the most sense to have a logistics gateway be its own entity. Updating my original post. A gateway would be a new entity for the purpose of creating gateway links to neighboring roboports. The gateway would have a linking radius of the same siz...

I've been playing DWM with 50 max biter group size, starting area = very small, and some changes to resources. I've noticed the huge oil patches, tried tweaking them down. resource settings seem... off... example, richness seems to influence rarity, size seems to influence rarity etc... Also, starti...

I don't see the problem since the player can decide whether to enable it anyway. Personally I like humble beginnings though.

You get pretty trees?

Generally, the freedom to come up with your own clever solutions. Specifically, the circuit network it tops in my book.

I think it would be neat to be allowed to place a lamp on top of an electric pole, or walls and any other structure for that matter.

Agreed 100% Repeatedly setting up the same train schedule over and over is boring!

BlakeMW wrote:a Tank being repaired will generally out-regen a power armor setup.

Interesting. I'll def try this out. I've rarely used the personal roboport and had never really tried this before. Makes sense though.

Fast example: For x mines y trains add y=z wait stops of same name per mine group (e.g: iron wait) in a central location. Add the common wait station stop prior to mine scheduled to wait on non existent circuit condition on each miner train combinator y (trains const) - x (enabled mines) output z Wa...

Is there a way to manipulate the construction and logistics radius?

If there were, and it didn't break the logistics network up, perhaps you could reduce them to zero for all roboports in the recalled network?

This should hopefully force all bots to dock, where they could then be extracted.

I appreciate the feedback about the big cost difference and tech hierarchical differences, but I am coming from more of a conceptual viewpoint. If energy shields are that good at mitigating damage, and small enough to plug into a piece of armor, then why wouldn't you put hundreds of them in a tank? ...

darkfrei wrote:It would be nice to build entities without collision of spidertron's legs.

Yes. Since they can cross water, they should also be able to walk over certain entities, albeit slowly. Perhaps large entities like storage tanks, trains, refineries, steam engines, or roboports would block it's path.